Mary WoodMary Wood is the bestselling author of wartime sagas, who also writes as Maggie Mason and Molly Kent. Born the 13th child of 15 to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy, Mary's childhood was a mixture of love and poverty. Throughout her lie, Mary has held various posts in office roles, working in the probation services and bringing up her four children and numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. An avid reader, she first put pen to paper in 1989 while nursing her mother through her final months, but didn't become successful until she began self-publishing her writing in 2011. Her novels include All I Have to Give, An Unbreakable Bond, In Their Mother's Footsteps and the Breckton novels. Her latest novel is A Lasting Promise (2025). Read More Read Less